A review by jonbot666
One Bird's Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home by Iain Reid

4.0

There were a lot of things I liked about this book, but it felt like it was workshopped into existence rather than flowing out of a creative outlet. Sometimes writing can provide a solace especially in the presence of family. Perhaps I am jealous of his relationship with his family in which creativity is encouraged and each accomplishment here does not seem to be stacked against another. Maybe I need to explore it again with fresh eyes that do not rely on the comparative nature of human existence, especially between a working author and one who has yet do break into any commercial success in that industry. My reading was both clouded by admiration and slight envy, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.